Polls open for German Election

Polls open in the German capital for voters to elect a new Chancellor. Some 59 million Germans are eligible to vote in a snap election to decide who will govern the eurozone’s largest economy.

The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leads the polls survey with 30 percent, the far-right Alternative Fur Deutschland (AfD) is slated to win 20 percent, while the incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) stands in third place with 15 percent. Voting got underway at 8:00 am local time and first estimates based on exit polls expected after polls close at 6:00 pm.